in reply to Viewing .dat files

Tell your web server the content type is text/plain. This could be done in an Apache .htaccess as follows: 
<Files *.dat>
   ForceType text/plain
</Files>

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Re^2: Viewing .dat files
by mwah (Hermit) on Oct 08, 2007 at 17:37 UTC
    ikegami : 
     ...
 ForceType text/plain
 ...
    Such solutions won't work if the document root
    is away from the script path. There won't be any
    allowed accesses into /cgi-bin/ without extra configuration
    (which you don't really want to do this way).

    You won't get around sth. in the lines of this: Re: Viewing .dat files

    Regards

    mwa
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      If ScriptAlias causes problems with ForceType, a more sensible solution would be to put the .dat in another directory rather than breaking caching, HEAD requests, conditional requests, partial requests, etc by reimplementing the wheel.

      I particularly like how your script checks if a file exists but returns 200 OK either way.

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